The WCL has developed activities in the fields of
Telecommunications, Speech & Natural Technology, Image Processing and
Audio & Electro-acoustics. The research activity of the Wire
Communications Laboratory is mainly of an applied nature. At present
it includes the following topics of research and development which are
pursued with funding from various sources (EU, Greek General
Secretariat for Research and Technology, industry, etc.): Design and
construction up to the level of industrial prototype of advanced
telecommunications systems and microcomputer controlled devices,
optimization of telecommunication networks with applications in the
Greek network, digital processing of speech with applications in
automated speech recognition, speaker recognition and speech synthesis
of Modern Greek, Natural Language processing, linguistic processing of
Modern Greek texts by computer, coding of acoustic signals, processing
of noisy acoustic signals, development of artificial intelligence
systems, multimedia processing and transmission of medical
information.